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Posted by ""Bob Cavana"" <Bob.Cavana@vuw.ac.nz> hi all, Kambiz Maani and Bob Cavana, and our colleagues from Pearson Education (NZ) Ltd, are delighted to announce that some instructors materials for our book 'Systems Thinking, System Dynamics' are now available on the following w...

Posted by ""Bob Cavana"" <Bob.Cavana@vuw.ac.nz> hi all, ""Last year the journal Production and Operations Management began to publish 1 page profiles of the most important people in the history of operations management. The current issue honors Jay Forrester (Production...

Posted by ""Bob Cavana"" <Bob.Cavana@vuw.ac.nz> hi all, This is a slight diversion from the current ""Society Strategy Development"" thread, but i wonder whether we are not looking at the 'big picture' sufficiently? Perhaps our broader academic/professional fi...

Posted by ""Bob Cavana"" <Bob.Cavana@vuw.ac.nz> Hello Professor Forrester, Thank you for drawing attention to the issues raised in your talk at the 2007 annual conference of the System Dynamics Society and published in the Summer- Fall 2007 issue of the System Dynamics Review, re...

Posted by ""Bob Cavana"" <Bob.Cavana@vuw.ac.nz> hi all, currently i am preparing a paper for the new 'developmental papers' stream at the SD conference in Athens on 'developing academic programmes in System Dynamics' although the focus of the paper will be on a brief comparison o...

Posted by ""Bob Cavana"" <Bob.Cavana@vuw.ac.nz> hello Brian, you raise some interesting points in your email. i would like to briefly touch on a couple of your points. (1) you ask ""Who here is working on ""soft"" modeling concepts? "" You ...

Posted by ""Bob Cavana"" <Bob.Cavana@vuw.ac.nz> First Call for Papers Australia New Zealand Systems Conference (ANZSYS) 2007 ""Systemic development: local solutions in a global environment"" 2 - 5 December 2007, Auckland, New Zealand ANZSYS'07 is the thirteent...

Posted by ""Bob Cavana"" <Bob.Cavana@vuw.ac.nz> Hello Ashley, You may find my recent publication (with Leslie Clifford, NZ Customs Service) in the System Dynamics Review of some interest in relation to the application of systems thinking and system dynamics ideas to public policy...

Posted by ""Bob Cavana"" <Bob.Cavana@vuw.ac.nz> Hi all, Many thanks for the emails I have received about my Google searching skills (!) & comments generally about the SD 'naming issue'. Firstly I would like to draw attention to my initial mistake on Google. unfortunately i se...

Posted by ""Bob Cavana"" <Bob.Cavana@vuw.ac.nz> WAS Please Capitalize System Dynamics hi all, my comments relate to: (2) John Sterman's & Carl Betterton's suggestion that ""folks involved in the field and on this list help us celebrate the 50th anniversary of the fi...

Posted by ""Bob Cavana"" <Bob.Cavana@vuw.ac.nz> WAS Please Capitalize System Dynamics (SD6350) hi all, i would like to add a few comments to my posting last week on this thread, although it has now 'factured' into a number of new threads. my comments relate to: (1) the current qu...

Posted by ""Bob Cavana"" <Bob.Cavana@vuw.ac.nz> hi all, aren't we being a bit 'over-sensitive' here by trying to create a new norm to capitilise the first letters in our field of 'system dynamics'? in System Dynamics Review the field is referred to as 'system dynamics' not 'Syste...

Posted by ""Bob Cavana"" <Bob.Cavana@vuw.ac.nz> Good idea Jim! However, may i suggest (in addition to continuing this electronic dicsussion) that we bring this up at the July Policy Council meeting of the System Dynamics Society (SDS) in Boston. we could link this to the topic of...

Posted by ""Bob Cavana"" <Bob.Cavana@vuw.ac.nz> Good points Eric. (re RE: REPLY SD Impact on National Government Policies (SD6174)) If the number of members of SDS just represent the ""tip of the iceberg"" and ""There are many, many users of ST and S...